View on the main SuseCon banners at the Hilton in Prague

Bar chart showing AI as the key technology at SuseCon

Bar chart, showing digital sovereignity and digital resilience as the key topics at SuseCon.

Sovereignty, resiliency, governance, and control are the key topics here at #SUSECON 2026 in Prague. This strong focus on compliance is interesting and I'm curious how it goes together with simplicity and ease of use.

Of course, AI is by far the leader when it comes to key technologies.

Dynatrace Just Bought the Team That Wrote the Book on Telemetry Pipelines Great to see the excellent team from Bindplane find a good home at Dynatrace, an observability vendor focused on unified, app-centric observability. Adding an OpenTelemetry-based data pipeline and age...

Interesting acquisition of BindPlane, the Otel-based telemetry data pipeline by @dynatrace.com -> My quick take: www.linkedin.com/pulse/dynatr... #acquisitions #observability

Vendors still hard at work building booths at KubeCon 2026 in Amsterdam. #cncf @omdiahq.bsky.social

Network graph showing the dominant themes at KubeCon EU 2026 in Amsterdam, based on analysis of 454 conference sessions. Ten topic clusters — AI/ML, Security, Observability, GPU, Networking, Scheduling, Multi-cluster, Platform Engineering, GitOps, and Storage — are arranged by force-directed layout, with key terms inside each cluster (e.g., "inference," "llm," and "kubeflow" inside AI/ML; "opentelemetry," "prometheus," and "tracing" inside Observability). Thick grey lines between clusters show cross-topic session overlap: AI/ML and GPU share 53 sessions (the strongest link), followed by AI/ML–Scheduling (38), AI/ML–Observability (36), and AI/ML–Security (35). Security acts as a second hub, bridging to Multi-cluster (28) and Networking (26). Storage and GitOps sit at the periphery with fewer cross-topic connections.

AI and security are the central topic hubs based on the 545 sessions at KubeCon in Amsterdam. AI and security are at the center of the map.

I look forward to seeing everyone in Amsterdam this week!

#KubeCon #CNCF #Omdia #CloudNative @omdiahq.bsky.social

Omdia on Location at KubeCon 2025 in Atlanta: Cloud Native, AI, and Security Insights YouTube video by Torsten Volk

Omdia on Location at KubeCon in Atlanta youtu.be/G7k16vkfF_I?... @cncf.bsky.social great to chat cloud native transformation with my great colleagues Jim Frey and Melinda Marks. #cloudnative

All code commits to any of the 241 @cncf.bsky.social CNCF projects since the very beginning in 2014.

394K commits for Kubernetes so far, 165k for Cilium, 102k for OpenTelemetry and an impressive 82k for Backstage.

First talk of KubeCon ✅

Liz Rice, Joe Stringer, and I lead a discussion on what projects should think about when trying to write an effective AI policy. Slides are lights on details, but be sure to catch the full recording with all the conversations when it comes out

Almost in Atlanta! #kubecon

Last English breakfast with all 4 food groups (sausage, bacon, egg and bread) at Heathrow. Looking forward to a fun week at #KubeCon in Atlanta. #Omdia

My quick take on the $180 Million funding round for @n8n.io : www.techtarget.com/searchapparc... @omdiahq.bsky.social #AI #LLM #Funding #LowCode

AI agents are accelerators, not developer replacements | TechTarget Learn how AI agents automate tasks like code generation, testing and documentation, but still require oversight for complex decision-making.

Why AI co-pilots will never become actual 'pilots' as long as they are based on LLMs. That's not a bad thing, as the production gain can be large. But just like an actor playing a doctor on TV is not really a doctor, a copilot using an llm is not a programmer.

www.techtarget.com/searchapparc...

Cool chart showing the hairball of interconnections between AI and cloud companies. #TooBigToFail

Machine Data trained LLMs and automatically generated dashboards for issue prevention. Very interesting Splunk .conf25 -> BLOG POST: www.techtarget.com/searchdatama... #Highlights #Splunk #Cisco #AICanvas #Observability

Red Hat analyst summit in London: 1) virtualization and 2) AI -> not necessarily in that order.

Theme: Disruption Needs Choice

Key products: RHEL10, vLLM, llm-d, Lightspeed and of course OpenShift.

Combination of open source and enterprise-grade support. @omdiahq.bsky.social #ESG #RedHat

VMware VCF 9.0 Finally Unifies Container and VM Management Broadcom's VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 aims to solve a longstanding DevOps challenge by enabling containers and VMs to run side by side with unified management.

Broadcom's @vmware.bsky.social Cloud Foundation 9.0 aims to solve a longstanding DevOps challenge by enabling containers and VMs to run side by side with unified management.

By @bcgain.bsky.social feat. @torstenvolk.bsky.social

Wow, flying out of LAX now makes you use your face as a boarding pass. Even in a free country that much Tracking would be spooky.

You can say what you want about Broadcom's app modernization and cloud strategy, but look at this stock growth. #VMwareExplore

"We can vmotion LLM workloads just like anyhting else" -> need to look at the implications of that statement. #VMwareExplore

"I'm the most excited about #Kubernetes being a native part of VCF 9" -> from the VMware Explore keynote.

"90% of enterprises have committed to VCF" -> "you are not alone. Everybody is moving this way" #VMwareExplore @vmware.bsky.social @broadcom.bsky.social @omdia.bsky.social

"It is insane, I've been doing it since 25 years and I'm still loving it" -> intro #VMware Explore keynote. -> analysis of the latet announcements to follow -> #ESG @broadcom.bsky.social @vmware.bsky.social

ESG Newsletter: Minimum Viable Observability for AI - The Foundation for AI Success at Scale There are many impressive examples of Large Large Models (LLMs) generating plausible-sounding but completely unverified claims. Once an end user falls for one of these, they never view an LLM the same...

Love the term 'confident nonsense' to describe how LLMs are able to plausibly and fluently provide great-sounding explanations for entirely made-up 'facts'. -> here's my blog on Minimum Viable Observability, as the remedy for 'confident nonsense': www.linkedin.com/pulse/minimu...

ESG Newsletter: Minimum Viable Observability for AI - The Foundation for AI Success at Scale There are many impressive examples of Large Large Models (LLMs) generating plausible-sounding but completely unverified claims. Once an end user falls for one of these, they never view an LLM the same...

Minimum Viable Observability is key for LLMs and LLM-driven apps -> Latest BLOG -> www.linkedin.com/pulse/minimu...
@dynatrace.com @grafana.bsky.social @chronosphere.bsky.social

HPE Discover was all about AI Factory, operational excellence, and Hybrid Cloud. Here's my quick BLOG summary: www.techtarget.com/searchdatace...

VMware VCF 9.0 Finally Unifies Container and VM Management Broadcom's VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 aims to solve a longstanding DevOps challenge by enabling containers and VMs to run side by side with unified management.

Broadcom's VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 aims to solve a longstanding DevOps challenge by enabling containers and VMs to run side by side with unified management.

By @bcgain.bsky.social feat. @torstenvolk.bsky.social

Can't believe the best AI app builder closed down. Farewell Lazy AI.

Interestingly, my favorite data notebook (the name escapes me now) also was shut down a while ago.

Shows that quality is not (always) the key success factor for startups. #AppDev #Copilot #AI #ESG

In case someone is interested in how to crash MacOS no matter how much RAM you have: Accidentally load a 50+GB size video into another video (instead of loading the intended 5MB photo). It's impressive how the power button becomes the only way out :-).

VMware VCF 9.0 Finally Unifies Container and VM Management Broadcom's VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 aims to solve a longstanding DevOps challenge by enabling containers and VMs to run side by side with unified management.

Broadcom's VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 aims to solve a longstanding DevOps challenge by enabling containers and VMs to run side by side with unified management.

By @bcgain.bsky.social feat. @torstenvolk.bsky.social

Yes, AI and VM are the big topics of the day. A quarter century after the virtual machine was 'discovered'.

From the sysadmin community on Reddit: VMware perpetual license holder receives audit letter Explore this post and more from the sysadmin community

This is one interesting discussion on VMware licensing (on Reddit): www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/c... #virtualization